Quality Physician Performance Program

Categories: Change Incentives to Promote Better Care

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia’s Quality Physician Performance Program (QP-3SM) is an incentive-based performance program for physicians.  The program incorporates effectiveness measures using nationally recognized or endorsed quality measures from groups such as:

• National Quality Forum
• National Committee for Quality Assurance
• Joint Commission
• Ambulatory Quality Alliance
• American Medical Association’s Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement

Where there are no nationally recognized quality metrics, the program works directly with medical societies to develop performance and monetary metrics.  In the clinical category of heart disease, for example, QP-3 teamed with the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons to define evidence-based clinical indicators for cardiac care and created the QP-3 scorecard.